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About the Role We have an opportunity to join Tesco as the Range API Product Manager, within the Space, Range and Merchandising team where our mission is to ensure customers can get what they want, when they want and how they want, whether that is in their local store or online, in the UK or elsewhere. The products we range is at the absolute core of Tesco, and in Technology, we have ambitions to transform the Buying process to enable the best decisions to be made simply and easily, using data science. The range API is essential to that, ensuring that what we range meets legal and internal compliance standards and enabling products to be fulfilled by supply chain and sold through our tills by providing a simple, secure and accurate source of range data in a global and omnichannel environment. Reporting to the Lead Product Manager, you will be responsible for the future direction of the Range API, solving problems, encouraging your team and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers. As Product Manager, you will make priority calls regularly; balancing strategic goals with BAU needs and requirements that support wider Tesco programmes and teams, across the UK, ROI and Central Europe regions, and supporting all channels. It is an exciting time to join the team, as our broader transformation programme begins. You will have a central role to play in shaping the strategy and helping to realise our ambitions across space, range and merchandising. We are looking for an ambitious individual who can demonstrate a passion for solving problems, working collaboratively, and communicating with confidence, in what is a critical and complex area. What is in it for you At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits. Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company s policy. Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents. Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request. Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan. Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. You will be responsible for Job Role & Responsibilities Contribute to the product vision, strategy and long-term roadmap for the product and execute it well by constantly managing the stakeholder s expectations and considering dependencies across multiple teams. Accountable for the performance of the product and achieving the Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs), relentlessly measuring, and communicating value to stakeholders. Work alongside research, analytics, and engineering teams to design and develop solutions that enable real business needs to be solved. Understands product discovery and can establish minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/feature, collaborating with other product managers and engineering teams to validate the MVP. Present your product and its capabilities/outcomes to other teams, linking the API work to business value. Effectively document and explain new requirements to engineering teams using user stories and acceptance criteria and help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster. Steer sprint planning sessions by working with the engineering counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort. Prioritise, co-ordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues. You will need Must have Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical experience Technically competent to influence and understand the solution context and approach (legacy, tactical, strategic) and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested The ability to build strong working relationships with peers, stakeholders, and teams across the business. Able to leverage these relationships to build consensus, drive change, and deliver value Proven track record of owning a product roadmap and executing on product backlogs to achieve Outcomes & Key Results Carrying out product management of APIs, or complex data structures, and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related services.
